SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 1.25pm THE government raised total revenue of R17,752-billion in September, the Department of Finance announced on Thursday. This puts the government above target and presents a very encouraging picture of the fiscal position, economists said. The figure was 13,5% higher than in September 1998 and was made up of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday 3.30pm DAIMLERCHRYSLER said on Friday that it is lifting investment in South Africa and will switch production of the right-hand drive model of its key new ‘C’ class Mercedes-Benz sedan to the country. The car giant said in a statement that it will immediately target annual production of 40000 to […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S first stock exchange, Bolsa de Valores de Mocambique, opened on Thursday, the head of the project said. After a series of postponements, Yossub Nurmamadi, told a news conference that the stock exchange finally opened with the sale of $5-billion treasury bonds issued by the government in May. The stock exchange opened more than a […]

OMINOUSLY for Western Province, Free State are just 52 runs behind with loads of batting to come. A day which belonged wholly to the home side began with Allan Donald ripping through what remained of the Province innings to finish with 5-47. Donald bowled 6.3 overs for a return of 3-13 on Friday – and […]

ENGLAND confirmed their place in the quarter-final play-offs of the World Cup on Friday, scoring 13 tries in a 101-10 procession against Tonga at Twickenham. England were given a helping hand when Tonga’s prop Ngalu Taufo’ou was sent off three minutes before half-time for flooring Richard Hill. Clive Woodward’s side were already in control at […]

FOREIGN Affairs Director-General Jackie Selebi is tipped to become South Africa’s new police chief when Police Commissioner George Fivaz’s contract expires early next year. Cabinet agreed on Wednesday to reshuffle several director-generals in the criminal justice and security sectors, the Business Day reports. Sources told the newspaper the reshuffle has been prompted by the need […]

THE Security Council voted on Friday to send a team of 30 civilians to maintain a United Nations presence in Angola, a country described as the most dangerous in Africa. On August 23, senior UN officials told the Council that Angolans knew “a level of despair that exists virtually nowhere else in the world.” Three […]

Leading try scorers 5 – Jonah Lomu (New Zealand) 4 – Keith Wood (Ireland), Jeff Wilson (New Zealand) Leading points scorers 52 – Silao Leaega (Samoa) 49 – Gareth Rees (Canada) Most tries by one player in a match 4 – Keith Wood (Ireland v U.S.) 3 – Toutai Kefu (Australia v Romania), Ugo Mola […]

ANGLO American Corp’s paper and pulp unit Mondi Ltd said on Thursday that it has sold two of its South African corrugated packaging plants to a black empowerment firm for R100-million. Mondi said in a statement that the sale satisfies a requirement of the Competition Commission following Mondi’s recent R538-million acquisition of Kohler Corrugated from […]

THE medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which was awarded the Nobel prize for peace on Friday, counts Somalia as among the toughest environments it works in. The governemnt in the Horn of African country collapsed in 1991 and since then the usual infrastructure of state, medical facilities included, have crumbled as clans […]